Chief of Health-Insurers Group Performs Tightrope Act

Our article on the looming deadline to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act touches on the daily tightrope routine performed by Karen Ignagni, the health insurance industry’s chief interlocutor with the Obama administration on implementing the new law.

Ms Ignagni is chief executive of America’s Health Insurance Plans, health insurers’ main lobbying group. She earns the big bucks–an annual compensation package worth about $1.7 million last year–for reconciling the ever-changing, difficult-to-predict moves by the Obama administration with the diverse interests of AHIP members.

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